OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 16 shown for “James D. Stout” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Tea Spoon, by James D. Stout

Tea Spoon

James D. Stout · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Fanny Elssler, by James Varick Stout, 1809 - 1860

Fanny Elssler

James Varick Stout, 1809 - 1860 · c. 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ladle, by James D. Stout

Ladle

James D. Stout · 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Broadside offering reward for the capture of the enslaved man Richard Low

Broadside offering reward for the capture of the enslaved man Richard Low

Artist not stated in the record · July 19, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ...., by Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville

The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ....

Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1712

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum cyclophyllum Sull. & Lesq.

Sphagnum cyclophyllum Sull. & Lesq.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint James the Greater, by Gil de Siloe

Saint James the Greater

Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

Public domainThe Met
Lygodium smithianum C. Presl

Lygodium smithianum C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Nov 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James

Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard, by James Morisset

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard

James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Transverse Flute in D-flat

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Spout Cup, by Jacob Boelen

Spout Cup

Jacob Boelen · ca. 1714

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 6540 matched · 24 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 789638 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.